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“It hasn’t failed because of a lack of willingness to pony up money. The Obama Democrats’ February 2009 stimulus package included $8 billion for high-speed rail projects. The Democratic Congress appropriated another $2.5 billion.
But Congress is turning off the spigot. The Republican-controlled House has appropriated zero dollars for high-speed rail. The Democratic-majority Senate Appropriations Committee has appropriated $100 million in their budget recommendation.
That’s effectively “a vote of ‘no confidence’ to President Obama’s infrastructure initiative,” concludes transportation analyst Ken Orski, ‘a bipartisan signal that Congress has no appetite for pouring more money into a venture that many lawmakers have come to view as a poster child for wasteful spending…”
PUMABydesign001's Blog 
Hi D,
Well it’s about time. Rail transportation makes a lot of sense in some places: NE Corridor, Chicago- Detroit other similar city pairs. Hi speed Light rail make NO sense anywhere. It has been tried, the interurban boom of the early 20th Century. The automobile killed it dead.
Kind of makes me sad, I’m one of those strange people who likes riding the train far more than flying. I do think Amtrak as a private company could maybe make a bit of money though. But not with my tax dollars.
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Good afternoon.
I agree. Lay off my tax dollars.
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